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- Sleep Study Raises Hope For Clinical Treatment of Racism, Sexism And Other Biases
- Researchers Develop an Iris Scanner That Can Work at 12 Metres Away
- World Hunger Drops Below 800 Million For The First Time in 25 Years
- Science Says Sleep Plays an Important Role in Memory
- NASA Scientists Have Discovered The Most Luminous Galaxy to Date
- Handgrip Strength Offers Cheap, Simple Way to Predict Heart Attack And Stroke Risk
- Scientists May Have Found a Way to Stop Breast Cancer Spreading to The Bones
- California Will Fight The Drought by Turning Sea Water Into Drinking Water
- Humans Will Be Cyborgs Within 200 Years, Expert Predicts
- WATCH: The Archer's Paradox in Slow Motion
- NASA Mission Finds Signs of Sea Salt on Europa
- WATCH: Why Do Those Little Spikes Form on Ice Cubes?
- This Awesome Lamp Works Without Batteries, Electricity or Sunlight
- Hallucinations And Delusions Are More Common Than We Thought
- This Table-Top Extreme UV Laser System Is Bright Enough to Image Nano-Structures
- WATCH: This 'Flying Boat' Is Set to Break a Transpacific Speed Record
- Japanese Scientists Reverse Ageing in Human Cell Lines
- A New Human Ancestor Has Been Discovered in Ethiopia
- Every World in a Grain of Sand: John Nash's Astonishing Geometry
- Here's Your Chance to Buy Your Own Nobel Prize
- Check Out This Amazing Photo of a Flying Mobula Ray
- This Photo Shows The Sun's Power in Exquisite Detail
- Scientists Develop Biodegradable Computer Chips Made From Wood
- Scientists Have Found a Way to End Aluminium's Quantum Monopoly
- WATCH: How Do Greenhouse Gases Actually Work?
- Drug Based on Herpes Successfully Treats Skin Cancer Patients
- WATCH: The Science Behind Why Humans Love Food So Much
- Science Has Found a Gene For Pain
- The Beautiful Plankton Lighting Up Tasmania Are Actually Really Worrying
- This Portable Capsule Lets You Live Off The Grid Anywhere in The World
- Common Hypertension Drug Shows Promise Against Parkinson's Disease
- Old Antibiotic Altered to Fight Six Types of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
- California's Biggest Polluters Are Giving Low-Income Homeowners Free Solar Panels
- Yes! A Test Track Is Being Built For Elon Musk's 1,200-Km/H Train
- Audi Has Made a Synthetic, High-Grade Fuel From Plant Sugars
- WATCH: Incredible Drone Footage of Sudan's Mysterious Nubian Pyramids
- This 'Lucky Iron Fish' Is Halving Instances of Anaemia in Cambodia
- Women With This Gene Are More Likely to Cheat, Research Suggests
- Keepers Have Finally Worked Out The Sex of Taronga Zoo's Baby Gorilla
- A Company Wants to Make Melbourne's Trams Solar-Powered
- Britain's Poo-Powered Bus Has Just Broken a Land Speed Record
- WATCH: Man Sets Hoverboard Flight World Record on a Device He Made Himself
- Here's Why It'll Take Us Decades to Master Nuclear Fusion
- New 'Semiliquid' Battery on Par With Lithium Ion Batteries And Supercapacitors
- WATCH: Are You Consuming Your Coffee Correctly?
- Why The 'Love Hormone' May Be Less Rosy And More Rosé Than We Thought
- New Bionic Contact Lenses Could Make Glasses Obsolete
- Study Finds People Who Relationship Brag on Facebook Are More Likely to Have Low Self-Esteem
- New Study Suggests Taking Paracetamol While Pregnant Affects Male Babies
- WATCH: Scientists Cook The Perfect Steak With Lava
- Scientists Identify a Gene to Switch The Sex of a Mosquito
- Healthy Skin Cells Harbour a High Number of Cancer-Causing Mutations
- Science Says a Traditional Chinese Medicine Dramatically Cuts Obesity in Mice
- WATCH: This Is Rain's Dirty Little Secret
- Images of Supernovae Minutes After Ignition Challenges Main Theory of Formation
- Scientists Can Now Convert Human Blood Samples Into Nerve Cells
- The Large Hadron Collider Has Just Annhilated Its Own Energy Record
- WATCH: Here's Why Raindrops Are Mathematically Impossible
- Octopuses Are Able to 'See' With Their Skin, New Research Finds
- Amputees Can Now Control Bionic Legs With Their Mind
- These Plantable Coffee Cups Contain Seeds to Grow in Your Backyard
- These Billboards Publicly Shame Litterers Using Their Discarded DNA
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Print Incredible Properties Onto Objects
- Lightweight Electric Thrusters Could Propel Nano-Satellites to The Moon
- Carbon-Capture Potential of Coastal Plants And Seaweed Underestimated, Research Suggests
- WATCH: The Science Behind The Coolest Candle Trick Ever
- This Could Be The Official Flag of Earth That We'll Plant on Mars
- Solar Cells That Work on Cloudy Days Just Hit a Record-Breaking 22.1% Efficiency
- High Iron Levels in The Brain Found to Hasten Alzheimer's Disease
- Scientists Are Closer to Understanding How Cancer Cells Spread in The Body
- Australian Science Is No Better Off After The 2015 Budget
- New Treatment Greatly Improves Cystic Fibrosis Symptoms
- Scientists Have Identified a Drug That Rejuvenates Ageing Muscle And Brain Tissue
- New Tiny Silicon Chip Paves The Way For Light-Speed Computers
- Researchers Figure Out How to Make Home-Made Heroin Without Poppies
- There's Antibiotic-Resistant E. Coli in UK Beach Water
- WATCH: The Loudest Possible Sound, According to Science
- An Electronic Memory Cell Has Been Created That Mimics The Human Brain
- Scientists Find Early Warning Signs of Several Cancers in Smokers' Cheeks
- SpaceX's Vintage Travel Posters Make Us Want to Go to Mars NOW
- These Genes May Control Whether You're a Morning or Night Person
- Spanish Researchers Are Developing Bladeless Wind Turbines
- WATCH: Scientists Burn a Diamond in Pure Oxygen
- WATCH: The Damage Sitting Does to Your Body Explained in 60 Seconds
- You'll Soon Be Able to Type Everything in Einstein's Handwriting, Thanks to This New Font
- This Inflatable Aircraft Could Explore The Skies of Venus
- Scientists Have Found a Way to Switch on a Dormant Gene in Human Red Blood Cells
- Queensland Government Pledges to Reach 50% Renewable Energy by 2030
- Millions of Baby Spiders Have Rained Down on Rural Australia
- Here's a Mind-Blowing Reminder of How Big The Extremely Large Telescope Will Be
- This Is The World's Most Efficient Solar Electricity System, Swedish Researchers Claim
- CERN Has Detected Extremely Rare Particle Decay For The First Time
- Alaskan Farmers Are Growing a Plant Used For Top-Secret Soviet Military Experiments
- Scientists Have Discovered The First Fully Warm-Blooded Fish
- Watch Lightning Get Trapped in This Tiny Glass Box Forever
- Scientists Unravel The Secret Lives of Massive, Underwater Waves
- Viagra Could Help Stop The Spread of Malaria, New Study Suggests
- Robotic Space Squids With Explosive Thrusters Could Help NASA Search For Aliens
- WATCH: The Science Behind Why It's So Hard to Remember Names
- This New Metal Box Could Help Take Physics Beyond The Standard Model
- Immune System Genes Relax During Winter, New Research Suggests
- Search For Missing Flight MH370 Uncovers a Shipwreck Near West Australia
- How to Tell if an Infant Is Crying in Pain, or Just Crying
- One in 12 Self-Driving Cars Have Been in Accidents Since September
- Here's Why Beauty Matters in The Animal World
- How Aboriginal Plant Extracts Might Treat Diabetes
- Japanese Scientists Have Invented a New Trillion-Frame-Per-Second Camera
- The New HPV Vaccine Can Prevent 80 Percent of Cervical Cancers, Study Suggests
- The Secret to Happiness Expressed as One Neat Mathematical Formula
- Science Finds That The '80s Was The Least Diverse Decade For Music
- Antimatter Haze Found in Thundercloud, And The Laws of Physics Can't Explain It
- Scientists Create Plasma Made From Equal Amounts of Matter And Antimatter
- Scientists Grow Chicken Embryos With 'Dinosaur Snouts'
- WATCH: Why Do We Use Symbols?
- Here's How Australian Surgeons Removed a Massive Tumour From This Woman's Face
- Cuba Has a Lung Cancer Vaccine – And Now The Rest of The World Wants It
- Scientists Have Discovered a New State of Matter, Called 'Jahn-Teller Metals'
- Search For Signs of Alien Civilisations in 100,000 Galaxies Has Turned Up Nothing
- This Beautiful Map Shows The Cloudiest Places on Earth
- WATCH: How to Make a Screwdriver Levitate Using Compressed Air
- WATCH: Why Do We Cry? The Chemistry of Three Types of Tears
- Good News! Appeals Court Rules That We Can Leave Electronics on in Flight
- WATCH: This Fish Is So Good at Camouflaging, It's Practically Invisible
- Turns Out It's Scientifically Possible to Have Twins With Different Dads
- New Smartphone Case Charges Your Phone by Harvesting Electricity From The Air
- WATCH: Here's How to Control Someone Else's Arm With Your Mind
- Hawaii Plans on Being The First US State to Run on 100% Renewables
- This New Implantable Device Cuts Effective Drug Doses to Just 1%
- The Solar Road in The Netherlands Is Working Even Better Than Expected
- Sperm Has Reportedly Been Created in The Lab For The First Time Ever
- WATCH: There Are 7 HOLES in The Space Station
- Sugar And Carbs, Not Physical Inactivity, Behind Surge in Obesity, Say Experts
- Spiders Sprayed With Nanotubes Have Spun The Toughest Fibre Ever Measured
- Researchers Find New Insight Into Who Drew The Nazca Lines
- Messenger Spacecraft Detects 4-Billion-Year-Old Magnetic Field on Mercury
- Self-Diagnosing Online Yields Mostly Irrelevant Results, Researchers Say
- Scientists at Work: Most Days in The Life of an Astronomer Aren't Spent at Telescopes
- WATCH: Is Ultron Inevitable?
- We're Figuring Out How to Achieve Brain-to-Brain Communication – Here's What That Could Help Us Do
- WATCH: This Is Your Brain on Tetris
- Whoa, Scientists Have Captured The First Ever Picture of Thunder
- How Gamers Have Developed a Virtual Forest to Aid Alzheimer's Patients
- Scientists Figure Out How to Restore Vision in Blind Mice
- NASA Radar Detects Heartbeats Under Rubble, Saves Four Men in Nepal
- Why You Should Just Cave And Satisfy Your Food Cravings, According to Science
- Curiosity Has Captured a Breath-Taking Blue Sunset Over Mars
- Silicon Microparticles Could Deliver a New Breast Cancer Vaccine
- Science Has Found Out Why Late Night Snacks Are So Addictive
- WATCH: Should We Let Pandas Go Extinct?
- Scientists Have Regenerated Nerves After Spinal Cord Injury
- Here's What Living in a World Without Smell Is Like
- New Study Suggests There Is No Autism Epidemic
- WATCH: Where Are All The Aliens? The Fermi Paradox Explained in 6 Minutes
- 'Strange Signals' From Microwave Oven Puzzled Astronomers For Decades
- Scientists May Have Found The Most Likely Culprit So Far For Schizophrenia
- Fructose Could Be Increasing Your Cravings For High-Calorie Foods
- Fracking Chemicals Have Been Discovered in Pennsylvania Drinking Water
- NASA Records Mysterious Sounds 36 Km Above Earth's Surface
- This Hypnotising Sand Sea Is Bigger Than France, And Looks Incredible From Space
- This New Tool Predicts How Much Energy Your Rooftop Solar Will Generate
- WATCH: Here's an Easy Way to Subtract by Adding
- NASA Tests Aircraft That Hovers Like a Helicopter, And Flies Like a Plane
- A University in Sydney Has Just Launched a Game-Changing 'Super Lab'
- How to Watch This Week's Meteor Shower Created by Halley's Comet
- Here's The Science Behind So-Called 'Gay Conversion'
- MRI Scans of Premature Babies Reveal Irregular Development of Neural Pathways
- New Screening Test Detects Twice as Many Cases of Ovarian Cancer
- WATCH: Water Drops Levitated by Sound Explode in Slow Motion
- Dark Matter And Stars 'Conspire' to Keep Elliptical Galaxies' Spin Stable
- WATCH: US Doctoral Student Films His Own Brain Surgery
- WATCH: This Creepy Worm Is Trying to Digest a Person's Hand
- Changes in Your Blood Can Reveal Cancer 13 Years Before It Develops
- Wearing a Suit Changes The Way Your Brain Works, Research Finds
- WATCH: Here's How to Make Technicolour Titanium at Home
- WATCH: Can Birds *really* Send Messages?
- Lake Michigan Is So Clear Right Now, You Can See Its Shipwrecks From a Plane
- NASA Has Trialled an Engine That Would Take Us to Mars in 10 Weeks
- Scientists Discover an Enzyme That Can Change a Person's Blood Type
- Shanghai's New Natural History Museum Looks Like a Crazy Ancient Fortress
- See How Old a Computer Thinks You Are With Microsoft's New Website
- Painless Vaccine Patches Are Set to Begin Clinical Trails in 2017
- WATCH: The Robot That Walks Like a Human Takes Its First Test-Stroll Outside
- Biologists Discover The Key Mechanism That Triggers Human Ageing
- NASA Confirms MESSENGER Spacecraft Has Crash-Landed on Mercury
- IBM Scientists Clear Major Hurdle For Practical Quantum Computers